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Worried officials in all states where a gas crunch had started or seemed imminent could look hopefully westward last week to the state where the crisis had first appeared. In California, those long lines of May had disappeared. Instead, now that school is out, Los Angeles teen-agers have resumed their Wednesday night ritual of cruising; some 8,000 of them were packed bumper to bumper along Van Nuys Boulevard, drinking, chattering and flirting. The lines that occasionally appeared at gas stations were usually started by customers shopping for the best bargains. The tank topping had stopped...
...loosed four aircraft, including one armor-plated job equipped to penetrate the severest storms. Six special Doppler radars, which are sensitive even to frequency changes in falling raindrops, have been focused on the western part of the state. And three storm chase vehicles like Moore's are rolling westward...
...Tenison, a handsome, blue-eyed member of the English landed gentry who bears a resemblance to Actor Peter O'Toole and harbors a love of adventure. In fact, that love was his first. In 1958, after finishing up at Oxford, he and Roommate Richard Mason made an unprecedented westward traverse of South America, crossing some 6,000 miles of mountain and jungle by Jeep...
...trouble about hiring Fairbanks was that he happened to have four years left on his Patriots contract. But that didn't stop the Flatirons-or him. To entice Fairbanks westward, they reportedly offered him a package considerably more attractive than his $150,000 salary with New England: $45,000 in base pay, frequent TV appearances and football clinics worth an estimated $100,000 annually, a $250,000 paid-up life-insurance policy and a chance to play golf and give "motivational talks" to businessmen at $3,000 a shot. Fairbanks said fine, but then the Patriots spoiled the going...
Before the Spanish lost their first horses in the Southwest and before encroaching white settlers and wars on the coast sent Eastern tribes westward, few Indians roamed the plains. Those who did were poor and, by later standards, unimpressive. Population pressure increased, forcing some tribes into grasslands. At the same time, Indians realized the horse offered the speed needed to hunt buffalo extensively. Not until then did any Plains tribes begin to prosper, let alone thrive. Only then did the buffalo hunt, made feasible by the horse, become the tribes' mainstay. Only then did the cultures undergo rapid adaptation...